Honestly, any movie that leaves me smiling I consider to be a good movie. There were a few laughs, too! Especially everything to do with the fact that both Rebel and Liam are Australian and koalas.
I loved how they made fun of all the rom-com tropes, and then, the one they left out was the one the movie was based off of (falling in love with your best friend).
It was a really fun movie, perfect for watching with all your single girlfriends on V-day!
Funny anti-rom com. Wilson and Devine have great screen chemistry and play off each other really well. Likeable lead and a good overall message.
Tom Ellis was the best part lol
I'm a sucker for a good impromptu musical number, and there are a couple here. I like that it's a self-aware romantic comedy that doesn't subvert the rules of the rom-com but revels in them.
I wanted to watch something funny, because I was a little bit sad, and gosh! I laughed so hard when I was watching this movie. It's very funny, and I think Rebel was really good. Loved all the characters + the songs were amazing! Definitely enjoyed this movie. (Maybe a little too much)
This movie has a great combination of a fun story, funny main character and a good message. I can't find a flaw with it, and I think it's not so much a rom-com parody, but a twisty rom-com, where romance happens not between two people, but between one person and herself. And yes, everyone has been saying this forever, but it has not really translated into movies, until these recent Netflix films (Nappily Ever After, Dumplin' and Isn't It Romantic). I like what they are doing, and I want more.
If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you're gonna love somebody else, right?
SO MUCH FUN! For every cynical soul, filled with RomCom stereotypes that pop. A perfect vehicle for the boldly irreverent Rebel Wilson. Adam Devine is the perfect match. Liam Hemsworth and Priyanka Chopra play perfection beautifully with lots of self depreciating humour. And the extra bonus of some pretty solid singing and a purely gratuitous dance number. I give this an 8 (great) out of 10. [RomCom Parody]
This movie stole content from Lindsay Ellis so it feels appropriate to use a Lindsay Ellisism to open this review:
Thanks, I hate it.
This feels like the kind of film that would be written by the sort of people that didn’t get the satire of 500 Days of Summer and complain about it’s use of the manic pixie dream girl trope.
This film feels the need to have Rebel Wilson explain all of the jokes directly to the camera, which only emphasises how unfunny the jokes are. The concept of being trapped in a romantic comedy world is not inherently a bad one, in the right hands you can get great satire out of that idea. This does not feel like satire but more like it’s just a bad rom-com.
The problem really is with the fact that it plays the idea for comedy but doesn’t offer enough laughs to justify itself. Where as something like 500 Days of Summer would introduce harsh realities into the rom-com formula in order to criticise the genre here you just get the exact same thing, with the same conclusion and the same watered-down, primary school message about love and self worth but Rebel Wilson makes bad one-liners about montages and slow motion.
I’m writing this review just hours after watching the film and honestly have nothing more to say, for a satire this had shockingly little impact on me.
Just skip this one.
I really enjoyed this film, way more than I thought I would. It was funny and heartfelt and of course Rebel Wilson is hilarious!
i like how i never thought she was crazy for being ignorant to all the signs when the media and her parent conditioned these standards as a woman in a larger body and in reality there are many flaws with the creepy actions men do in rom coms
One-dimensional Rebel Wilson strikes again. Story sucked, acting terrible - couldn't take it past 10 minutes, had to switch it off. 0/10
I enjoyed watching it. Laughed multiple times.. Good, easy, feel good movie.
hahah. Officer Handsome. I hate this place! It's too Fu%#king delightful
Yesssss....I made it!...held my fart thru the entire movie.. I am... romantic
This is good because it shows the true reality. I loved it.
As was obvious from the trailers, this is a rom-com that makes fun of rom-coms. It's predictable but it was still fun and hard not to laugh along with all the over the top sequences. I will say that I was expecting more musical numbers. The triker showed dancing in the park and singin so I was expecting a musical rom-com, especially with such a talented cast. The reality is that its just a regular rom-com woth a karaoke scene. Too bad, I think it would have been so much better with a couple random musical numbers in there. Still, overall its a fun movie.
predictable, still enjoyable. one of those movies you'd watch on a Sunday afternoon to relax. you know from minute 5 what is going to happen, most of the funny scenes were shown on the trailer, but it is still nice enough.
Sometimes it's clever and funny but most of the time it's not. The karaoke scene was great though.
In my opinion, I thought that movie was probably the cutest movie ever because I really enjoy romantic comedies and cute movies especially on Valentine’s Day. The movie was simply adorable and a nice movie to watch. I really enjoyed it. I loved the musical as well.
you know how some rom-coms make you want to get married? this makes me want to get bitterly divorced and then die alone
Film has some funny lines and moments here and there
this is the worst movie I've ever seen ! really ? full of old jokes and boring things that we saw in a lot of movies !
It's funny how a movie can place itself on such a massive pedestal when it comes to judging and criticising romantic movies, but by the end it became the thing it was criticising.
The movie itself was fine. It's got a good heart and a lovely message. I was never bored watching it, which is a plus.
I’m not a big Rebel Wilson fan. Since she’s one note and it’s all about her weight for laughs. This is the best of her movies though.
Since the story is creative and fun. Even if you know who she’ll wind up with, from the start. Adam Devine is likable even if his obnoxious side always shows in movies.
Who knew that the romantic comedy movies parody will and so romantic. ;)
Please do not watch it is so bad. Not to mention it turned into a shit fantasy musical.
I'm pretty sure people who rated this movie anything over a 3 were paid to leave those reviews. This was the biggest turd of a movie I've seen in the last several years (and I've seen a lot). Not romantic, not funny, super predictable, terrible acting, complete waste of time.
Movie was kind of cliche and stupid and even though it's supposed to be a parody of stupid and cliche rom coms dosen't change the fact that I still felt like I was watching any other rom com.
Percebe-se a ideia de subverter os conceitos, os clichés mas infelizmente aqui nada funciona e faz os 90 min durarem uma eternidade (nunca desejei tanto a chegada dos créditos finais).
Constrangedor!
Such a fun and good-feel movie. You just gotta love Rebel Wilson.
A nice try at subverting the romcom genre, and while it isn't completely successful, it still passes the time amiably enough. Give me this over Pretty Woman who wore 27 Dresses at Four Weddings And A Funeral in between those moments While You Were Sleeping any day!
My mom slept through the entire movie lollol I think that says it all.
Side note: Tom Ellis totally stole the show in his one scene as the hot doctor.
Just what you need for Valentine’s Day, a honey stew with a side order of BS—“you can’t love anyone until you love yourself.” Still, this movie is sweet enough to give anyone diabetes and other side-effects may include involuntary giggles and the occasional LOL moment. :) Verdict: Thoroughly enjoyable.
Saw this at a UCLA advance screening.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2019-02-16T14:17:30Z
This is a parody of rom-com and a good parody imo will maintain genre. it's stupid easy to make a comedy parody of everything. See things like Epic Movie and Date Movie. But a good parody of horror films will also itself be a horror film see Scream and Happy Death Day both excellent horror films that lampoon aspects of horror films. I think what sets this movie apart from other parodies is that it does a very effective job at being a romcom. It doesn't take itself seriously which is what you expect but there's a level of sincerity that you don't expect.
It's super hard to pull off a song and dance number in a movie and not have it be super cheesy. Few films do this that aren't all about singing or dancing (Step Up, Pitch Perfect). But the number in this movie manages to be legimately fun which surprised me. Rebel Wilson is Rebel Wilson most people hate her I find her charming enough. Hemsworth plays a one note character that's on screen enough to be funny with his constant "You're beguiling" but not so much that you get annoyed with him. If I had known Priyanka Chopra was going to be in the movie I might have skipped it. I'm not a fan of her as a person. Also I learned she looks terrible in extreme close ups. When you pull out just a little bit she shines. She's a good looking person, a mostly decent actor and she has a top notch voice.
If I cared about Adam Devine personally I'd be scared for his career becoming one note but here he's pretty toned down. Which helps him a lot.
Plotwise I have a big problem with the opening scene after the prologue where Nat has to get a note off her door and give it to her neighbor. It's filmed so badly you can barely tell what's going on. WHich is that he's hot and girls are constantly leaving note for him but they don't know which door is his so she ends up with notes on her door. It's a weird problem that makes no sense but at least they do a callback to explain it at the end. But beyond that the plot doesn't try so hard to make sense. Which is a good thing. It's just walking the path of the romcom you the audience (more than Nat) try to figure out which tropes are going to make it in and which ones will get left out.
It was a fun ride that didn't overstay it's welcome. A light airy movie that didn't leave you empty. Congratulations we have a date movie.